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Porthdinllaen Lifeboat Station (''Welsh'' Gorsaf Bad Achub Porthdinllaen) is an RNLI-operated lifeboat station in the coastal village of Porthdinllaen, within the community of Dwyfor on the Llŷn Peninsula, Gwynedd, North Wales ==History== In the 19th century, North Wales lacked good roads, and so the sea was the easiest way to access many places. Porthdinllaen, on the northern coast of the Llŷn peninsula, with its sheltered north facing bay, became important as a harbour of refuge and a busy port, with over 700 ships passing through the port in 1861.〔 On the night of December 2/3 1863, 18 ships that had been sheltering in Porthdinllaen bay were driven ashore and wrecked. Robert Rees of Morfa Nefyn tied a rope around his waist and, with the help of 4 other men, succeeded in saving 28 lives. For his gallantry on that occasion, Rees was awarded the Bronze Medal from the Board of Trade and the Thanks on Vellum by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).〔 After storms subdued, the Reverend Owen Lloyd Williams, Vicar of Boduan, wrote to the RNLI in London to ask for a lifeboat station to be established at Porthdinllaen. After an inspection of the area in February 1864 by Captain J.R. Ward, and his fully supporting recommendation report, the establishment of a lifeboat station was approved by the RNLI on 3 March 1864.〔 The proposal was to establish both a stone boat house and stone slipway, and to protect the structure to allow safe launching of the lifeboat from the prevailing westerly winds through creation of a protective seawall. After accepting an estimate of £140 for the works, local contractors were engaged. Instead of building a new lifeboat, the RNLI proposed to move and reallocate the existing lifeboat at Sea Palling in Norfolk, England. Built in 1858 as a 30ft x 7ft 6inch, 10-oared self-righter, after sailing to a boatyard in London she was altered and lengthened to a 36ft x 8ft, 12-oared self-righter at a cost of £198.〔 Conveyed from London to Caernarfon free of charge by the London & North Western Railway, she was then sailed south to Porthdinllaen, arriving on 26 August 1864. The boat was made possible by a donation of £250 by Lady Cotton-Sheppard (née Elizabeth Cotton of Thornton Hall, Oxfordshire), the third that she had underwritten. The boat hence was named ''Cotton Sheppard'' in a ceremony conducted by new vicar, The Rev. John Hughes who also became the stations Honorary Secretary, on 9 September 1864. The first coxswain was his brother Hugh Hughes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Porthdinllaen Lifeboat Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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